Marian Lupu

Marian Lupu
File:Marian Lupu cutout.jpg
President of Moldova Acting
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 December 2010
Prime Minister	Vlad Filat
Preceded by	Vlad Filat (Acting)
President of Parliament
In office 24 March 2005 – 5 May 2009
Preceded by	Eugenia Ostapciuc
Succeeded by	Ivan Călin (Acting)
Personal details
Born	(1966-06-20) 20 June 1966 Bălţi, Soviet Union (now Moldova)
Political party	Democratic Party (2009–present) Alliance for European Integration (2009–present)
Other political affiliations	Communist Party (Before 1991) Party of Communists (1993–2009)
Alma mater	Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy
Profession	Economist

Marian Lupu (born 20 June 1966) is a Moldovan politician.

Background and education

Marian Lupu was born on 20 June 1966 in Bălţi, but he and his family moved to Chişinău when he was 6 years old. His parents gave him the nickname Marcel, because they liked the Romanian accordion musician Marcel Budală (1926–1989). His father, Ilie Ion Lupu (b.1938), was a mathematics professor at the Moldova State University and T. G. Shevchenko University, author, and a political activist of the Communist Party. In the 1990s, his father militated in favour of the re-legalization of the Communist Party after being banned in 1991. Ilie Ion Lupu met Vladimir Voronin only once, in 2008, at a ceremony where he was presented the order of "Gloria Muncii". His mother taught French language at the Nicolae Testemiţanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Marian Lupu got married in 1992 and has two children, Sanda and Cristian. Marian Lupu was a member of Komsomol since 1980 till 1988 and a a Member of Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1988 till 1991.

Until 1983, Lupu studied at "Gheorghe Asachi" High School of Chişinău. He studied Economics at Moldova State University (until 1987) and at Plekhanov Moscow Institute of the National Economy (1987–1991) in Moscow where he obtained his Ph.D in Economics. Lupu also attended stages at the Institute of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. (1994) and World Trade Organization in Geneva (1996).

Besides speaking his native Romanian, Lupu speaks English, French, and Russian.

Early career

He was named as Vice Minister of the Economy in the new Communist Tarlev cabinet in June 2001. Two years later in August 2003, Lupu was promoted to full Minister of the Economy (5 August 2003 - 24 March 2005).

President of the Moldovan Parliament

Main articles: Moldovan Parliament 2005-2009 and President of the Moldovan Parliament

After the Communists won re-election in 2005, Lupu was once again promoted, this time as Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament. Marian Lupu was Speaker of the Moldovan Parliament from March 2005 to May 2009. But in December 2008, Lupu was not included by president Vladimir Voronin in the composition of the Supreme Security Council. Lupu was a high ranking member of the Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and was considered to be a leading candidate to become the next Prime Minister after Zinaida Greceanîi stepped down; however, shortly before the second (unsuccessful) attempt to elect the next president on 3 June 2009, he left the PCRM, stating that it was not possible to reform the PCRM from within. Subsequently he was offered membership and even leadership in the Democratic Party of Moldova, which had not cleared the electoral threshold in the first elections in 2009.

Alliance For European Integration

Further information: Alliance For European Integration

After July 2009 parliamentary election, alongside Vlad Filat, Mihai Ghimpu, and Serafim Urechean, Marian Lupu singned the Alliance For European Integration in a press-conference on 8 August 2009.

President of Moldova

Main articles: Moldovan presidential election, November 2009 and President of Moldova

He is the candidate of the Alliance For European Integration for President of Moldova.

Gallery

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  Marian Lupu and Dmitry Medvedev on 9 October 2009

External links

• Moldova's turncoat president?